From Queen Elizabeth II’s record-breaking 70-year reign to Queen Elizabeth I’s transformative Elizabethan era, this article ...

It's taken some time, about a century in fact, but finally, thanks chiefly to editor and jazz historian Francesco Martinelli of Siena Jazz, the first comprehensive, pan-European history of jazz sees ...

Europeans as a people are younger than we thought, a new study suggests. DNA recovered from ancient skeletons reveals that the genetic makeup of modern Europe was established around 4,500 B.C. in the ...

For thousands of years, the great civilisations and nations of Europe have had to endure regular attacks from a lethal foe: Mother Nature. From earthquakes and eruptions to fire and floods, the ...

There is a well-worn story that is told in one form or another in all European history textbooks. In 824, ten years after the death of Charlemagne, Agobard, Archbishop of Lyon, hailed a new Christian ...

Saim Saeed is a Brussels-based journalist and former POLITICO editor. European officials are keen to assert that the sum of their institutions is more than their parts. The EU, in their view, isn’t ...

The Department of International History is delighted to host a group of world-leading historians of Europe to explore modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the ...

A rich cultural legacy reinforces a commitment to solidarity. [ opinion ] In 1971, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi celebrated 2,500 years of Persian monarchy with an opulent party for hundreds of ...